Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction: STEVIE SIMKIN -- 1. Tragedy and State -- 2. Women's Division of Experience -- 3. The Theatre and the Scaffold: Death as Spectacle in The Spanish...
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction: STEVIE SIMKIN -- 1. Tragedy and State -- 2. Women's Division of Experience -- 3. The Theatre and the Scaffold: Death as Spectacle in The Spanish Tragedy -- 4. The Spanish Tragedy, or, The Machiavel's Revenge -- 5. The Revenger's Tragedy: Providence, Parody and Black Camp -- 6. 'For Show or Useless Property': Necrophilia and The Revenger's Tragedy -- 7. 'As Tame as the Ladies': Politics and Gender in The Changeling -- 8. 'I'll Want My Will Else': The Changeling and Women's Complicity with their Rapists -- 9. Gender, Rhetoric and Performance in The White Devil -- 10. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Representing the Incestuous Body -- 11. 'What Strange Riddle's This?': Deciphering 'Tis Pity She's a Whore -- Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
